Toggl (web, Mac, PC, iOS, Android) freeUse Toggl to keep track of the time you've spent prepping or grading for each class, so you know where the time went! Toggl's report features can create lists and pie charts giving you a picture of your time usage. Just like a budget, Toggl might help you discover where you are spending your time and help improve your time management overall.

Apimac Timer (Mac) freeInstall this app on your MacBook connected to a classroom projector and you have a full-screen stopwatch or countdown clock with alarm that the whole class can see during class activities.

Alinof Timer (Mac) freeUse this gadget on your MacBook when you want a countdown clock with alarm that only takes up a small space on your screen.Thanks to Hudson Lim for recommending this resource.

VIDEO CLIPS FOR CLASSROOM USE

Movie Segments to Assess Grammar Goals (web) freeThis extensive website created by an ESL teacher is a treasure trove of film clips, each with a worksheet to practice a specific grammar point. New clips are regularly added.

WingClips (web) freeThis site features high-quality clips from new and old movies. Inappropriate language and content have been edited out because these clips are primarily intended for church use, which makes them ready to go for the classroom.Thanks to Joann Anderson for recommending this resource.

Images

Fascinating Pictures (web) subject to copyright and fair useThis extensive Twitter feed of fascinating images from around the world can be useful for creative storytelling in the classroom. The related fascinatingpictures.com website contains some images by category.

Black & White Photos by Gilbert Garcin (web) subject to copyright and fair useOn this photographer's website is a collection of intriguing black and white images, useful for "What's going on?" types of activities.Thanks to Janelle Pence for recommending this resource.

ELT Pics (web) Creative Commons license with attribution, non-commercial useEvery two weeks, the teachers who curate this website take their own photos on a selected theme and add them to this site. Information on Creative Commons usage can be found here.Thanks to Kazue Suzuki for recommending this resource.

﻿Jeopardy App: Make Your Own Jeopardy Template Online﻿ (web) free or $14.99 for lifetime membershipThis website allows you create custom Jeopardy games which can be played online with teams. The games you create are publicly accessible to anyone, and as such, you can search for games created by other users. With lifetime membership, you get no ads and the options to download games, save games privately online, and name the teams.

CONVERSATION TOPICS

Conversation Topics from Early Rain (web) freeThese conversation topics designed for discussion groups include short, background-activating discussions before introducing questions. Many incorporate Bible verses for comparison to a Christian viewpoint.

Wise Old Sayings(web) freeA large collection of proverbs and quotes from around the world, with interesting categories such as Fake Friends, Survival, and Taking Chances.Thanks to Kathleen Bednar for recommending this resource.

pronunciation : international phonetic alphabet (ipa)

Interactive IPA Chart (web) freeHear examples of each sound by simply clicking on the character in this IPA chart from the Linguistics Department at the University of Victoria, BC.

IPA Font Palette (Mac) freeWith this installed on your MacBook, you can type any character in the IPA by clicking on the installed chart. Here is a how-to.

Sounds: The Pronunciation App (iOS, Android) free for basic or $5.99 for premiumTap any character on the chart to hear the sound or tap-and-hold to hear an example word. Quizzes allow you to practice reading a word written in IPA, or transcribing a spoken or written English word into IPA. Thanks to Ethan Bradley for recommending this resource.

vocabulary word lists

The General Service List (GSL) (web) freeMichael West published this list of the 2,000 headwords of greatest "general service" in the English language in 1953. A New General Service List (NGSL) was published in 2013, with 2800 of the most frequently used words culled from corpus 100 times the size of the original.

The Academic Word List (AWL) (web) freeAveril Coxhead created this list of 570 word families appearing most frequently in academic English in 2000. For an alphabetical list, see the web page by UEFAP which lists complete word families.

The Academic Collocation List (web) freeDrawn from the Pearson International Corpus of Academic English, this list features 2,469 of the "most frequent and pedagogically relevant lexical collocations in written academic English." Downloadable as a PDF or spreadsheet.